It was relentlessly repetitive. “I would go back to the thing, the addictive cycle. I couldn’t stop.”

Then he took a step beyond the images on his screen. “I ended up sleeping with somebody on tour. It wasn’t on the computer; it was in real life. I found myself doing something I had never even come close to with my girlfriend, my future wife,” he said.

He and Mandy Mayhall had been friends at Rowlett High School in Texas and started dating in 2008. “We hardly kissed and here I had just slept with somebody that I barely knew,” Jason said.

The secret began to eat away at him. Four months later he told Mandy the truth. “Naturally, she didn’t expect it. It brought lots of tears. I asked for her forgiveness,” he said.